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SCIENCE
Volume 332, Issue 6037, Pages 1528-1532Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1204636
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- UCLA
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All planetary materials sampled thus far vary in their relative abundance of the major isotope of oxygen, O-16, such that it has not been possible to define a primordial solar system composition. We measured the oxygen isotopic composition of solar wind captured and returned to Earth by NASA's Genesis mission. Our results demonstrate that the Sun is highly enriched in O-16 relative to the Earth, Moon, Mars, and bulk meteorites. Because the solar photosphere preserves the average isotopic composition of the solar system for elements heavier than lithium, we conclude that essentially all rocky materials in the inner solar system were enriched in O-17 and O-18, relative to O-16, by similar to 7%, probably via non-mass-dependent chemistry before accretion of the first planetesimals.
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